«I sometimes think there is little i would like more than a pair of wings to fly on. And insect wings just fascinate me to no end--the multi-faceted intricacy of them, and the infinite control that they give.

I found a dead dragonfly in the road yesterday and knew i'd have to make this picture with it.»

Aliza Razell is a very young American photographer from Massachusetts.

With only 19 years old Aliza has an ongoing project 365 (a photo a day for a year), in a process of experimentation playing with photography, painting and photomanipulation to create these beautiful images, in most of which she's the model.

«I recently got an underwater bag, and tried it out for the first time today. It was a ton of fun and such a learning curve. I am so excited to play more with this and get more comfortable shooting underwater.»

«I've been thinking a lot lately about the idea of eternal recurrence: that each soul is stuck in one life, and when that life ends the soul starts over again at that life's start. you may be living this moment for the hundredth, the thousandth, the millionth time, but no matter what you will live it infinite times more.

Maybe we're all just ancient souls, whirling through the same lives again and again. Maybe with each circle, we gain and lose another lifetime of knowledge and carry with us another lifetime's worth of weariness.»

86/365 - Serie Ikävä "Escurriéndose" - Ikävä Series "Slip"

«There's a word in Finnish, Ikävä (yearning). It is used to mean the feeling of missing someone/-where/-thing. I had this idea a few days ago, inspired by that word.»

In this series of photographs Razell bring together the two very diverse mediums - photography and watercolor - using Photoshop.

"Anesidora III"

«Referencing Greek mythology, Aliza's series 'Anesidora' explores the story of Pandora's box in six images inspired by the magic of confronting and ultimately collaborating with something foreign and otherworldly. 'Anesidora' is in fact the second name given to Pandora and is inscribed against her figure at the British Museum in London.»

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